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Deep Listening:The Story of Pauline Oliveros Reflection

Question: “Reflect on your own experiences of listening — to sound, to others, to your environment, or to yourself. How does Oliveros’s idea of deep listening challenge the way you typically give attention? In what ways might listening through your whole body, or approaching sound as a form of play and research, change your understanding of connection, communication, or creativity?”

I think Oliveros idea of deep listening challenges the way I or anyone else typically gives attention to music by making the viewer fully engage with the sounds rather than distacted listening
Oliveros way of deep listening challenges the viewer to fully pay attention to the different sounds in the piece in a way her music is alot like classical music in that it features more spratic shifts in pitchs that requires you to enjoy the music as entairment instead of background sound. Alot of musicical artistic prowest by the artist are usually lost now a days as most people (including myself) don’t even know the lyrics to some of the songs they like.

This showcases that we don’t usually give music enough attention if our even our favourite song’s lyrics are neglected. The idea of listening with my whole body or using sound as a form of play and research changes my understanding of music by lessening the restriction associated with music. Personally I actually create music as a hobby and I have never followed traditional rules and I find it more fun this way as I don’t need to conform to some pattern or such instead I rely like this document was suggesting with my brain or body on what sounds pleasing. Listening through your whole body also allows you to fully feel the sounds and be able to create a pattern that can convey mood something I think is lost in some more pattern like music where the goal almost becomes to make something really hard to play instead of enjoying the feeling and emotion in the sounds.
How I experience audio is that it influences my daily life. Audio plays a big role in my life as I listen to music on a constant basis aswell as produce some music. I have used music more in high school as a anti anxiety tool, but now I use music whenever I am in big crowds or when I am anxious in general. Music has allowed me to overcome anxious feelings that otherwise would be made me become a hermit and to music I am forever grateful. Thanks to music I was able to slowly ween off using it so much and now it is just a tool used to make sure I can handle public spaces or stressful events.
My expierence with listening to the environment is that it gives me calmness, the sounds of the birds chirping and wind blowing the trees gives this full body relaxation or tranquil feeling and in turn you start to pay more attention to your environment and less on your thoughts which I can say as a paranoid person is a blessing I just wish I did it more. I would say to best explain it is a passive meditation.

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